About Me
My name is Lisa Fitton, PhD, CCC-SLP and I am an Associate Professor in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at the University of South Carolina. The overall goal of my work is to increase access to and implementation of high-quality education and effective educational supports for all children. I currently address this objective through partnering with families, teachers, and fellow researchers to: (1) increase the validity and reliability of standardized assessment and screening practices, (2) adapt instruction to increase responsiveness to individual differences, and (3) improve the accuracy of research inference through the implementation of high-quality methodology and statistical analysis.
My expertise is in quantitative statistics and methodology, multilingualism (Spanish-English in particular), and language/literacy development. I completed my Ph.D. with Dr. Carla Wood in the School of Communication Science & Disorders at Florida State University in 2018. My first three years of doctoral work were funded by the Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training grant awarded to Florida State by the Institute of Education Science (IES). My last two years were funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special (OSEP) Education through the Bilingual Oral Language and Literacy Development and Disorders grant. After graduating, I had the opportunity to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Center for Reading Research on the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative project Reach Every Reader, with PIs Dr. Hugh Catts and Dr. Yaacov Petscher.
My expertise is in quantitative statistics and methodology, multilingualism (Spanish-English in particular), and language/literacy development. I completed my Ph.D. with Dr. Carla Wood in the School of Communication Science & Disorders at Florida State University in 2018. My first three years of doctoral work were funded by the Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training grant awarded to Florida State by the Institute of Education Science (IES). My last two years were funded by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special (OSEP) Education through the Bilingual Oral Language and Literacy Development and Disorders grant. After graduating, I had the opportunity to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Center for Reading Research on the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative project Reach Every Reader, with PIs Dr. Hugh Catts and Dr. Yaacov Petscher.
orcid.org/0000-0003-0524-7339You can access any of my papers here. Please do not hesitate to contact me if any of the links or resources are unavailable.
